Occupation: Scholar Birth: 182 Death: 254
What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God..
Conscience is the chamber of justice..
The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives.
Ask, and it shall be given you..
Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vess….
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us..
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teachin….
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and….
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accom….
Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they f….
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil..
Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endu….
If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is c….
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood ….
It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of….
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, ….
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?.
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is b….
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer..
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His ….
The Scripture, which tells us not to be angry at all, and which says in the thirty-seventh Psalm, Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, and which comm….